Talk:Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1992

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The map is flat-out wrong; Tsongas, not Clinton, won Wasgington and Utah. Who made up this map??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.9.78.241 (talk) 22:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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The convention section is entirely about Casey, which makes little sense since this is an article about the primaries and Casey didn't participate in any of them. And the link to the assertion that DNC officials 'allegedly sent a camera crew with Taylor to seek out Casey and "humiliate him" on live television' goes to a less-than-neutral source. Even if it's true, why have 3 paragraphs on a sideshow about a non-candidate who didn't talk at the convention, and zero about the actual nominee or what the platform was? The whole section should be cut, or re-written to actually address the nomination.

I'm also 99% certain that the original "Seven Dwarfs" comment is related to the 1988 campaign, where Hunter S. Thompson made the crack 'Gary Hart and the Seven Dwarfs' to describe the field, but I don't have the patience to look it up.

69.109.106.134 02:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


I completely agree: the bit on the convention sucks, perhaps the worst wiki entry I have ever seen, looks like it was added by some right wing hack. Who were the main speakers?? What were the main themes? Etc.. He was a minority plank for a reason: the summary should focus on the main thrust of the convention. Piece of crap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.251.229 (talk) 18:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


You are right that this was in reference to 1988. I don't know that Hunter S. Thompson deserves credit for the term, but the origin was 1988. I've removed it from this article. Still A Student 01:01, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Merge?

For I think having it all in one place is a good thing Gang14 23:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Al Gore?

My dad thinks that Al Gore ran. I cannot find any non-Wikipedia information on this subject. Even when he saw all of the pages related to the subject, he still did not believe me. He does not completely trust Wikipedia. Could someone leave a message on my talk page with an external link to evidence that he did/did not run and then delete this section?Bigblawbenjr (talk) 05:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Here, from the New York Times (search for "did not run"): [1]. --Allen (talk) 03:02, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
He didn't. He was considering it, but his son was hit by a car (not sure if the driver was drunk or not) While leaving a baseball game. Gore was too swept up in this, that he decided to spend more time with his family rather than run for President. (Gore mentions it in "An Inconvenient Truth" --Bigvinu (talk) 14:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] map vs. text?

The map says Clinton won Utah, the text says Tsongas. Who was it? Was there some weird complication? --Allen (talk) 02:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Endorsements

I believe this list is incomplete, but cannot find a greater list. Any knowledgeable person care to impart his/r information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.168.62.197 (talk) 03:31, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Page format: HORRIBLE

Please somebody reformat this page. Somebody should not be required to have a browser window stretched wider than 1200 pixels in order for all the images not to collide and overlap. For shame: Wikipedia is supposed to be accessible. 76.200.153.78 (talk) 01:36, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I stopgapped this by clearing the gallery under the infobox. DO NOT REVERT THIS unless you want people with a browser window width of less than 1200px to be screwed out of seeing half the images. If you can come up with a better way to fix (re-format) it, please do. I think the gallery is a bad choice here. If there were a way to allow each candidate to run inline so that none of them are forced to overlap the infobox, that would be better. Another better way would be to have each candidate on a row of his/her own, so that the row width can scale naturally. The gallery forces a specific number of images per row - you can never pick the optimal number that will work for all window widths, not if you're going to have a gigantic infobox on the other side. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY CRAP LIKE "GET A BIGGER SCREEN N00b". That is not the point. The point is accessibility. 76.200.153.78 (talk) 03:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)